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Re:OpenBSD Desktop in about 30 Minutes by iyn on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:47PM (#13225002)
Can somebody comment on how good/bad is the driver support in the BSD land? I'm interested specifically in wireless and graphics.
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Re:OpenBSD Desktop in about 30 Minutes by chrisp_dc on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:15PM (#13225632)
I tried using FreeBSD 11 and XFCE as my development platform.

Good: XFCE worked OOB with Intel graphics outputting displayport to a 2560 x 1080 display.

Bad: Video playback in VLC and FireFox was choppy.

Not sure if the AMD FirePro or AMD Quadro have better support than Intel graphics. I ended up switching back to Debian.

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